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Anyone have a MobileMe account and wondered if you can access the iDisk from a mount command in your Linux environment? It’s handy for backing up your data and general file sharing.

This simple step by step process will allow you to gain read and write access to your MobileMe user account’s iDisk drive space. The first pre-cursor you need to fulfill is that you need the davfs (on debian/ubuntu flavors just run: apt-get install davfs2) package installed.

Next we’re going to create a mount point that will be used as a point of reference for the iDisk drive.

That’s great isn’t it? Now the only trouble is it keeps on prompting you for your username and password. In my situation I want this automated. Luckily for us, davfs has a mechanism built into it for managing this. It’s located in the /etc/davfs2/secrets file. So as the root user run the following commands.

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